WISE SPENDING.

Cromwell Argus, Volume LXI, Issue 3162, 11 May 1931, Page 7

WISE SPENDING.

Trie moral aspect of wise spending ami saving is no less important than the economic aspect. Self-respect and self-reliance, which are the offspring of thrift, are national assets, the importance of which cannot be overrated. The reasonable claims of the body and the mind must be adequately met, but abstinence and the careful regulation of one's mode of life are duties which none can avoid. In the words of Sir Josiah Stamp:—Anything which teaches men to do more than live for the moment, to deny themselves of a pleasure now for a greater one later on, or to deny themselves a pleasure at ail for the greater pleasure of others, is .such a thing as must strengthen the individual will. . . . Anything that teaches men that life is more than a succession of days and weeks to be got through somehow . . .

and that life is greatest if it is looked at as a whole, and planned for as a whole, has a powerful and worthy influence on character. HOW THINGS HAPPEN. There was a loud crash and a tinkling noise as the new tea-service Jane had been carrying met the hard floor of the kitchen. Almost immediately there was a patter of feet outside, and the kitchen door opened to admit Jane's mistress. The mistress gazed with dismay at the mass of debris on the floor. "Oh, Jane!" she cried, "How did ir happen?" "Lack of co-ordination between mind and muscle, ma'am," replied Jane.

He was very old, but he had never left his native village. Then one day he was taken to Southampton and was shown round a big Atlantic liner. "Here are the engines," he was told. "They are of fifty thousand horsepower." "Phew!" was all that he could say. Then after a few seconds, he added: "But I'd like to see their stables."

Smith: "Here's Robinson coming; let's cross over, I don't want to meet him. I owe him some money." Brown: "That's all right. He'll cross the street as soon as he sees us; he owes me some money."